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    The Oregon Trail (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading): Sketches of Prairie and Rocky Mountain Life
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    The Oregon Trail (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading): Sketches of Prairie and Rocky Mountain Life

    By Francis Parkman and John Langellier

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    The Oregon Trail offers a critical view of the Conestoga wagon generation. The result of the notes Parkman took along the newly-developed roads to the West, the book put an end to the sentimentalized portrait of pioneer travel. Altering the course of American history and shaping early views of Native Americans, it denounces, in its descriptions of the Oglala tribe he visited, the stereotype of the Noble Savage.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBarnes & Noble
    Release dateSep 1, 2009
    ISBN9781411430723
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    • 5/5
      It was hard to put down.
      The dauntless characters kept me entertained and the
      writing was realistic and the exploits of these intrepid men
      crossing the Rocky Mountains kept me interested enough to
      regret that I finished it, like leaving a good friend’s company